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McManman Store, Kilbourn

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Description: External view of McManman Store, Superior Street, Kilbourn, with people posing standing in front of the store, and two children sitting on the curb.
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Broadway from Bennett Studio

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Description: View down Broadway from H.H. Bennett's studio.
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H.H. Bennett Studio

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Description: Exterior view of the H.H. Bennett Studio storefront, in Kilbourn (former name of the Wisconsin Dells). A display case of Bennett's images is on the wooden ...
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Broadway before Fire

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Description: Kilbourn. Broadway before fire in 1866.
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Storefronts in Wisconsin Dells

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Description: Elevated view of Dixon's before the fire.
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Ticket Seller

Date: 1950
Description: A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter.
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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
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Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery

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Description: Exterior view of the Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery on Superior Street.
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Giftland at Night

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Description: Night view of gift shops, restaurants, and other attractions in a two-story shopping plaza. Several cars are parked along the curb beneath a streetlight in...
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Pipe Dyer's Trading Post

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Description: Two men and one woman in Native American costume stand near a fence and a U.S. flag outside the entrance of Pipe Dyer's Trading Post in Fort Dells. There a...
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H.H. Bennett Studio, Front and East Side

Date: 1875
Description: Exterior of the front and east side of the Bennett Studio when it was new, showing the skylight and the revolving print house. There is a large windmill be...
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H.H. Bennett Studio, Front and West Side

Date: 1875
Description: Front and west side of Bennett Studio. There is a windmill behind the building.
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Dixon's Canada Store

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Description: Elevated view of storefront of Dixon's Canada Store. Dixon’s Canada Store was reputed to be the finest dry-goods emporium west of Milwaukee in the mid 1860...
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Sidewalk Crew Portrait

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Description: A group of manual laborers posing for a portrait in front of a tailor's shop. The men apparently work pouring concrete to make sidewalks and are posing wit...
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Oak Grave Camp

Date: 1929
Description: A man, woman, and child pose by a car near a tourist camping stop.
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Dogs Eating Ice Cream

Date: 07 1956
Description: Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree...
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Fire Department

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Description: Five men posed on a firetruck in the middle of a street in a business district. Storefronts are in the background on the left and right.
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Store at Glenco Cottages

Date: 1926
Description: View across lawn of people in the Glenco Cottages store with an open dining area on the porch. A sign on the tree in front reads: "Please do not take or de...
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Murray's Cabins — Jct. 12 and County Trunk M

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Description: View across road towards a group of people standing in front of the main office and general store at Murray's Cabins. On the right is a wooden archway with...
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Nettland's Roll Inn on Highway 16 "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: View across road towards the main office at Nettland's Roll Inn. The building is of chink log construction with the round logs overlapping at the ends. Can...

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